Sandgrouse is published by OSME and contains papers and short notes on the ornithology of the OSME region, provides bird and conservation news from the region, and a comprehensive round-up of bird sightings in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
Sandgrouse volume 46 (1) Spring 2024
Cover photo: Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus, Georgia. This issue of Sandgrouse features a new checklist of the birds of Georgia. © Nika Melikishvili.
| 2 | The birds of Georgia: an updated checklist using citizen science platforms. |
| Nika Budagashvili & Zurab Javakhishvili | |
| 30 | First assessment of coprophagic feeding behaviour in captive Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus and Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus: implications for wild vulture health in agricultural landscapes. |
| Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd, Jonah Thomas, Millie Duckenfield, Ngaio L Richards, Sarah Upton, Gerard Whitehouse-Tedd, Louis Phipps, Holly Cale & Sarah Hall | |
| 53 | First proven record of ‘Siberian’ Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita tritis in Saudi Arabia assessed from mtDNA. |
| Jem Babbington, Phil Roberts, Tereza Senfeld & J Martin Collinson | |
| 62 | Preservation of major migratory populations of Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii requires undergrounding of Uzbekistan’s Kungrad powerline. |
| Nigel J Collar & Mimi Kessler | |
| 70 | The Great Bustard Otis tarda population of the Acıgöl Basin and its northern surroundings, Türkiye. |
| Şafak Arslan & Li˙der Si˙nav | |
| 79 | The occurrence of ‘Asian’ Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica daurica/japonica and ‘Tytler’s’ Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica tytleri in the United Arab Emirates. |
| Oscar Campbell, Simon Lloyd & Theodore Burkett | |
| 89 | Validity of the fifth primary pattern as a distinguishing feature in Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus subspecies, with particular emphasis on Steppe Whimbrel N. p. alboaxillaris. |
| Justin Janse | |
| 92 | Birds of Kazakhstan – an update. |
| Arend Wassink | |
| 97 | First breeding record of Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla in Lebanon. |
| Samer Azar, Darron Boyd & Larry LichtenwNWalter | |
| 99 | First records of European Shag Gulosus aristotelis and other recent bird observations in Lebanon, 2023-2024. |
| Michel Sawan & Charbel Namnoum | |
| 103 | First documented record of Eurasian Magpie Pica pica in Egypt. |
| Watter Albahry | |
| 105 | From the Rarities Committees. |
| Ian Harrison (Compiler) | |
| 113 | OSME Regional Round-up. |
| Simon Tull (Compiler) | |
| 128 | Around the Region. |
| Ian Harrison, Jane Stylianou & Simon Tull (Compilers) |